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An American researcher and a Fulbright scholar Nina Jablonski, has claimed to have found a fossil of a hippopotami in Nepal, which is said to be around a millionof years old. Hippopotamus is a large mammal which is now only found in Africa. "We found the fossils in the east-Koshi river zone, as well as in the west Karnali river zone of Nepal,' said Jablonski. "This shows that the hippos survived all over South Asia,' said Jablonski.

Publication Date: 
27/02/1999
Down to Earth [2]
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Wildlife [3], Fossils [4], Nepal [5]
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